This is my art journal, in an old book. It is in the beginning stages, and none of these pages are done. I am just PLAYING – I’m not criticizing myself, I’m not judging how they look. It is very freeing, and I’m enjoying it a lot!! I talked about where/how I was inspired in this post here. I hope you enjoy looking at these pages, and hopefully I will inspire YOU to play and be free!! I enjoy the fact that there is text already on the pages, so you don’t have an empty page just staring at you. Since it is an older book, I have been re-enforcing the spine with some old 7gypsies book binders tape I have had in my stash. I also have been tearing pages out here and there since the pages I am creating have some thickness to them, I need to make room so it will close a little bit.
Old Supplies Used: Making Memories letter stickers, Heidi Swapp letter stickers, Sassafrass Lass pattern papers, Studio Calico papers and stickers
Old Supplies Used: Jenni Bowlin sticker, Pink Paislee rub-ons, Imagination Project chipboard
Old Supplies Used: Scenic Route chipboard
Old Supplies Used: Collage Press embellishments
Old Supplies Used: Studio Calico stickers, Making Memories pattern papers
Old Supplies Used: Sassafrass Lass clear stamps
Old Supplies Used: October Afternoon pattern paper, Websters Pages larger alpha stickers, Cosmo Cricket smaller alpha stickers, Jenni Bowlin ticket, Studio Calico stickers
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I have been inspired by many images lately of artists creating inside old books. I found myself pinning quite a few of them for inspiration later on. I finally decided instead of adding it to the many projects I want to do at some point to JUST DO IT! First let me share with you some of the inspiration that got my creative juices flowing….
Source: Everything In Life Is Scrapable
Source: A Little Imagination and a Pile of Junk
Source: Inspirations Scrap
Source: Pamela Garrison
Source: Linkage
Source: Crazy Thing Called Life
So, I finally bit the bullet, and on my way home from work friday of Memorial Day weekend, I stopped at Tim’s Used Books. This is a great used bookstore on main street in Hyannis, it’s actually right next door to where Colorful Creations used to be. Walking past the old storefront is a whole other story that I most likely won’t blog about- makes me sad. But, back to being crafty!! So I picked out a book, its small around 5×7 and my thought process with that is then I wouldn’t need to clean up my studio table too much before being able to dive in HA! It cost me $4 and as soon as I got home I dove right in. My “rules” which really aren’t rules is to JUST play! To use STUFF – i have tons of it, so I’m just grabbing scraps out of my scrap bin, and embellishments off of my Clip it Up. I have no plan, I just moved from page to page and created whatever I felt like. Here is a pic of my book, and come back tomorrow to see some of the interior pages!
